We
Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories
from Rwandaby Philip Gourevitch
"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there
is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch
writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic
strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple,
and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide
should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.

The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly
visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened,
and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who
has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a
Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain
death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter
of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What
could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's
history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy
with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does
this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan - Amazon.comPaperback: 355 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x
8.30 x 5.54Publisher: Picador; ; (September 1, )ISBN: 0312243359

Land
of a Thousand Hills : My Life in Rwandaby Rosamond Halsey Carr, Ann Howard Halsey (Contributor)
If you enjoyed Out of Africa and West with the Night, here's another
amazing woman's story of her adventurous African life. Rosamond Halsey
Carr left her job as a young New York City fashion illustrator in the 1940s
to join her hunter-explorer husband in the Belgian Congo; after their divorce,
she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower
plantation. For the next 50 years she lived an extraordinary life, witnessing
the fall of colonialism, the loss of her friend Dian Fossey, and the relentless
clashes between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Although this book includes a
poignant insider's account of the events surrounding the horrific 1994
genocide, it also provides a beautiful portrait of the Rwanda that was--and
still is. After being evacuated during the genocide, Carr returned to Rwanda
and, at age 82, rebuilt her home from the ground up, intent on opening
a home for some 100 orphaned children.

Carr's humble tenacity and bold strength animate her historical, cultural,
and personal accounts. Arriving in Africa in 1949, she witnesses the traditions
of the royal Tutsi dynasty, sails up the Congo to camp in pygmy villages,
encounters leopards, mingles with European aristocrats, finds and loses
love, and lives through Congo independence and civil war. Her passion for
the country and its people makes for a life story that is both tragic and
hopeful, and full of interesting details that animate the spirit of Rwanda.
--Kathryn True - Amazon.com
Paperback: 248 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.64 x
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